Norman Lear remains the oldest Emmy winner after Octavia Spencer scored a surprise win over Sir David Attenborough at the Peacock Theater.
Spencer scored her first Emmy in the Outstanding Narrator category for her work on Investigation Discovery’s true-crime series Lost Women of Alaska.
The win prevents 100-year-old Attenborough from becoming the oldest Emmy winner ever. Attenborough, who has been on television screens for over 70 years, had a 40% chance of winning the award given that he was nominated twice in the category for his work on Netflix’s A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough and Nat Geo’s
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